• The former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has failed to block publication of a kiss-and-tell book by a former lover which describes him as "half man and half pig".
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  • It could rank as one of the supreme ironies of the internet age. Silicon Valley pioneer Yahoo!, which helped bring the digital communication revolution to the toiling masses, has banned its staff from working from home.
  • Mo Farah has been asked many questions by journalists since rising to fame by winning two gold medals at the London Olympics in the 5,000m and 10,000m. But none will have been as ill-researched as those posed by LaTonya Norton of New Orleans station WDSU.
  • Even though he lived in the same quiet neighborhood for decades, no one seemed to know Walter Samaszko Jr. He was so reclusive that weeks passed before authorities discovered he had died in his modest home in Nevada.
  • Pope Benedict XVI will be known as “emeritus Pope” in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican has announced, fuelling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope.
  • Apple has proposed to pay compensation to parents whose children made “in-app purchases” without their permission, following claims that it failed to publicise the feature of children-targeted games.
  • The main opposition coalition has announced that it will boycott upcoming parliamentary elections – a decision likely to deepen the nation’s political crisis.
  • Tattooed, pierced, bleached blonde and almost two metres tall, Dennis Rodman will certainly stand out in North Korea, where the dress code is drab and the average man is up to 8cm shorter than his South Korean neighbour.
  • Four people suspected of acting as accomplices in the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid have been arrested.
  • The first time John Kerry was in Berlin, he was a boisterous boy of 10 risking his father’s diplomatic standing with clandestine bicycle rides into the Russian sector of the Cold War city.
  • The wife of the former New York police officer known as the “Cannibal Cop” has told a court how she learned her husband was planning to kill and eat her.
  • A high-profile Senate investigation into whether the makers of Zero Dark Thirty - the critically-acclaimed film charting the CIA hunt for Osama Bin Laden - were granted “inappropriate access” to classified material has been quietly dropped.
  • Surjit Hans’ interest in the works of William Shakespeare was first sparked when he was a student, but it was not until he had retired from academia that he started on the labour of love in which he would lose himself and which took two decades to complete.
  • The events of that evening in January are etched into Vilma Jaime’s memory. The sun had set, but it was still oppressively hot and neighbours were outside in the street, chatting and drinking traditional mate tea. Then the gunshots began.
  • An Afghan teenager whose nose and ears were cut off as punishment for attempting to flee an abusive marriage has revealed her new nose following reconstructive surgery.
  • Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as Barack Obama’s latest Defence Secretary today, ending one of the most controversial appointment sagas in US history.
  • The British government is continuing to deport failed asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka despite mounting evidence they face the risk of being raped and tortured on their return. More Tamils are scheduled to be deported this week.
  • The prospect of a hung parliament in Italy put stock markets under heavy selling pressure this morning as an election deadlock sparked fears of more uncertainty in the eurozone.
  • World powers are expected to offer Iran limited sanctions relief today if it agrees to halt its most sensitive nuclear work, in a new attempt to resolve a dispute that threatens to trigger another war in the Middle East.

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